I'm not much of a person who goes for documentaries. I'm much more interested in movies like Star Wars, Pixar movies and any film that I've seen as a kid that were awesome to me. I've seen a few interesting documentaries that range from aliens to history and even sometimes about the many surgeries there are (because I had many as a kid) which was always something that I like so see, mostly when it's ever on TV. But what I have never thought I would come across would actually mess me up a bit! I came across a film called Faces Of Death that was a series of documentaries from 1977 to 1990. It consisted of the many ways to die and showed every detail. They called these type of films, a Mondo film. However years ago, the makers of Faces Of Death came out and said it was all fake (which was a relief to me). But in 1993, one independent horror film company proved themselves that they could make the first true "Shockumentary" and they called it, Traces Of Death. I've only seen the first Faces Of Death which was highly controversial film at that time. It was posted on Youtube and I believe it is still there. I was watching the film on YouTube 3 months ago at night and came across a related video, which was Traces Of Death. I clicked on it to see what it was about and... Oh my god.

Now unlike Faces Of Death for being discovered fake, Traces Of Death on the other hand is different. It is real. It is a compilation of stock footage depicting real violence, gore, and death with a narrator that says a few lines. This was a big mistake for me to watch it in the middle of the night. I have seen real gore before and it has not bothered me, but this film really got me. I couldn't even sleep that night. I started to have a panic attack the next day but told my mother it was probably the McDonald's I ate when I was at Walmart.  The music of the film is the most freakiest soundtrack I've ever heard. I've watched Traces Of Death a few times recently and got used to it. Then I found out there was five Traces Of Death films that were made. I watched all of them and the forth one was the most disturbing out of all of them. They started to use Grindcore and Death metal music on the other films, the first one was synth like music that was taken from public domain horror films.

I'm not encouraging or giving curiosity to anyone on Vizzed to see these films. If you are not into gore, I really don't recommend seeing these films. The first film which was on YouTube is not there anymore, so it must be found from some other means.

P.S. If a thread like this is not allowed on Vizzed, Moderators can go ahead and close it. I just wanted to share my experience and to write it as clean as possible. I apologize if I have gave you the urge to see the film, which was absolutely not the intention to do so.

Okay, i've seen your age and i believe you immediately. Doesn't seem like something i want to watch. Only if i'm in a horror mood and just woke up as a disaster.

Ever saw a few documentaries of Evacuate Earth? It's a series not available on National Geographic anymore but still on YouTube, and it's about several ways the Earth can end. I've seen an episode of a neutron star passing the Earth and destroying it half and an episode of a disease similar to rabies taking over humanity. I can tell you, the thoughts are real and creepy, the images and clips may be fake. But even if they're fake, the possibilities ARE real, no matter how likely you think it won't happen.

Take Asteroid Day (AKA Friday) on Discovery Science, for example. They something curious about asteroids when showing a video of an asteroid crashing into the Earth and dinosaurs looking at it while it crashes into the Earth. The producers said "It already happened to the dinosaurs. It could happen to us." with text only. And i can say that they're right but when will it happen then? I also can say they're wrong but i can't prove them wrong. Same for proving them right, actually...

As CrimsonTHRAK and i said, some things like those can be found on YouTube. But how big is the percentage of fake video's there, again? It's actually impossible to know that. Count the video's on You-... Actually, that's impossible too. Only the creators of YouTube know that. Either way, the other percentage of YouTube video's is real. Real as in real. And i'm not saying CrimsonTHRAK is lying, i'm only saying that there might be a chance at least something in what he saw is fake. If not, then so be it and listen to his advice.

(Okay, this is the first time i typed this much for a thread like this one. Achievement unlocked?)

Um wow, yeah those documentaries sound just plain awful. Really makes you wonder what is going through the
minds of the people that make them. *cringes. The most disturbing documentary I saw was The Fourth Kind
not anywhere close to as disturbing as Traces of Death but still really freaked me out at the time. 

I'm very skeptical of documentaries. The main reason anybody can make a film and manipulate stats to show what you want to push. Remember Dr. Wakefield making up numbers and paying his subjects to say what he wanted them too about Autism and vaccines. He actually got into trouble. Another person to get into hot water manipulating and making up stats was Katie Couric. Couric a few years ago made a documentary about guns in America. After the report/documentary came out. Every fact check site, crime prevention site and even the FBI site debunked her claims. She later admitted she made some of them up. 

One of the most disturbing documentaries I watched was human trafficking and the porn industry. Fact check sites seemed to back up the evidence in this film. The makers showed how predators and human traffickers try to lure young girls into their schemes. But it also showed how porn industries outside of America are contributed to trafficking. In this documentary a porn industry in Cambodia was kidnapping or luring teenage girls. They even printed fake id's on them go them in other countries to sell them to make movies or use them. Finally a Cambodia company tried to sneak young girls into America. They were quickly arrested. The problem though is there are many out there. I wad disturbed and it made me aware of this problem that is going on 

The best advice for documentaries is research and check the facts. Don't believe every documentary. As I showed above some are false and some are true.